On this day November 17th:
1278-In England, 680 Jews were arrested of which 293 were hanged for counterfeiting the King’s coins.
1558 Mary I, England's first queen (also known as 'Bloody Mary'), died at St James's Palace London.1558-The great English Queen Elizabeth I ascended to the English throne.
1603-English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh went on trial falsely accused of treason.
1796-Catherine the Great of Russia died at the age of 67.
1855-David Livingstone became the first European to see Victoria Falls in what﻿ is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
1887-Bernard Montgomery, British World War II commander was born in London.
1941-The Germans established the post of Reichskommissariat Ostland under Alfred Rosenberg, to administer the recently conquered territories in the east.
1964-Britain's treacherous government announced that it was banning all arms exports to South Africa
1970-Lunokhod 1, a self-propelled vehicle controlled by Soviet mission control on Earth, rolled out of the Luna 17 landing probe and became the first wheeled vehicle to travel on the moon